How is your health in general? : qualitative and quantitative studies on self-assessed health and socioeconomic differences herein
Year: 2002
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Measuring perceived health status through the single item "How is your health in general?" has\nappealed to many researchers. Understandably, as it is an easy to administer, highly reliable\nmeasure, 'vith strong predictive validity and -at the individual level- high content validity.\nHowever, although many (mostly quantitative) studies have been conducted on the single-item\nmeasure of self-assessed health, investigators have not been able to determine all dimensions\nwhich are involved in health-assessments. This illustrates that the greatest advantage of the\nsingle-item measure on self-assessed health over other measures of perceived health, the fact that\nit is fully individualised, is at the same time its greatest disadvantage; the process of health\nassessment is more or less a "black box". We still need to find out which dimensions are involved\nin answering this question
Author: Jeanette G Simon
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1507326188